A special exhibition opens at the Ethnographic Museum to commemorate the birthday of Keszi Laszlo Kovacs. The exhibition "Every Cube is Valuable" through the Ethnographer's Camera has photography and film at its centre. The currently opening-first Chamber exhibition follows the life and work of the extraordinary talented and prolific, famous ethnographic film artist, Laszlo Keszi Kovacs through his films, documents, photos, personal items and technical equipment.

László Keszi Kovács was born in Polgár in 1908. Originally he wanted to be a painter. He learned painting, how to see colours, and also the role of light and shadows form the masters Béla Iványi-Grünwald, Oscar Glatz. He came into contact with ethnography through Pál Teleki at his seminars, with the film at the Museum of Ethnography in 1932 through Dr. Sándor Gönyey when he was filming traditional dances. He made his first film in 1937.

"Making ethnographic films is an expensive task and there is only a few professionals who is able to" see "the varied work of people, their traditions, in short, the folk life. And the visionary in vain talks about colour, form and structure to the blind even movement, workflows, and for example, the aesthetics of traditional costume. The money is in the hand of those, who believe that the word and letter is good for everything. Therefore, this is how "incapable ethnographic performance and writing" exist in this country" (Laszlo Keszi Kovacs about himself, 1983.)

However, Laszlo Keszi Kovacs remained diligent advocate of ethnographic filmmaking.

Related videos are:

Keszi Kovács Moving Pictures

László Keszi Kovács Would Be 105

The curator of the exhibition is: Tari János

Director of the exhibition is: Mrs. Nagy Krisztina Sebestény

Personal objects were provided by Imola Keszi Kovács